Nice painting with poultry yard was executed by good listed French landscape and animal painter Léon-Philibert Couturier (1823 Chalon-sur-Saone - 1901 Saint-Quentin/Aisne). He studied by Charles and Jean-Claude Nicolas Couturier; since 1844 - at the Fine art Academy in Paris by Francois Edouard Picot. Portraits, genre, since 1853 - country life and animalistic paintings. worked as illustrator by different magazines and news papaers

Works:CHALON-SUR-SAONE, MBA: u.a. Le rat retiré du monde, 1863; Scène de basse-cour, 1876; Paysan allumant sa pipe; Le séchage du linge; Pierrette et Pierrot; La pourvoyeuse; Selbst-Portr., 1895. DIJON, MBA: Coq et poules. LOUVIERS, Mus. mun. MACON, Mus. MONTPELLIER, Mus. Fabre. MÜNCHEN, BSGS. NIZZA, MBA Jules Chéret. PERIGEUX, Mus. du Périgord. PROVINS/Seine-et-Marne, Mus. REIMS, MBA. SAINT-QUENTIN, Mus.: Vieille femme; Selbst-Portr. TOURNUS/Saône-et-Loire, Mus. Greuze: Scène villageoise

Exhibitions: Paris: 1845-81 SAfr; 1855 WA (Med. 3. cl.).

Literature : "AKL" by Saur; Benezit Lexicon; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original gallery frame

Measurements: unframed w 18 1/4" x h 21 3/4 " (46,5 x 55 cm), framed w 21 3/4 " x h 25 5/8" (55 x 65 cm).

Condition: in very good condition